Lovefest 2025 was at Linnaea Farm on Saturday August 9th.
Cortes Currents arrived early and wandered through the crowd asking people about the festival and why they kept coming back. In the process, I also recorded a few short clips of music, asked one of the principal organizers about this yearâs program and some people shared their recollections of the festivalâs beginnings
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By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Since 1990, members of Babatunde Olatunjiâs Drums of Passion ensemble have been teaching West African drumming and dancing at Hollyhock Leadership Learning Centre on Cortes Island.
Continue reading 30 years of Olatunji drumming and dancing celebrated on Cortes IslandIt has been more than a week since the Southern Cortes Community Association, or SCCA, put out a survey to find out what kinds of spaces, opportunities and events the community wants to see in Mansons Hall.
In todayâs interview Cora Moret, secretary of the SCCA, describes what sounds like the societyâs rebirth after a two-year-long COVID hibernation.
Continue reading Help the restart of Mansons Hall by filling out a surveyHollyhock celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The current CEO, Peter Wrinch, was just seven years old when Rex Weyler and some of his friends founded the leadership center in 1982. In a recent press release Wrinch states the instituteâs program for this year, âfocuses on our deep desire to heal disconnection with ourselves, each other, and the natural world in this moment.â
Continue reading Hollyhockâs 40th year: the disconnection in ourselves, with each other and from the natural world
He helped shape Cortes Radio almost since the beginning. as one of the stationâs early Presidents, as a senior producer of our Deep Roots Initiative and most Fridays he hosts the Lunchtime Locomotion. In addition to this, he is a member of Cortes Islandâs original rock quartet and more recently Back Eddy and the Procrastinators. This morning’s interview is Greg Osoba on radio, music & life.
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